This tutorial uses Blogger because it is a Google product. Google's size, at present, suggests this service is likely to continue, although there never are any guarantees. And, since Google's primary income comes from advertising, the service is more likely to remain free (on at least some level) as long as one can endure advertising. Commercial advertising has been the support for television through the decades, so the support model is not uncomfortable to most people.
A. Go to http://www.blogger.com* Create Blog Now
Use Google account or establish a new account
B. Name blog* This name becomes part of the web address, so it must be unique to that service.
Sometimes the name of the blog also becomes the title of the blog, as well. In other instances the title may be different.
C. Preview and choose a template
D. You will be invited to start posting with your first post. You can save to a "Draft" if you have to quit before you are finished with what you wish to write.
E. When you have written what you wish to post, "Preview Before Publishing" (PBP). Again, if it doesn't look right, save to "draft." Only when you are happy with what you have written and the way it appears in Preview, do you press "Publish."
F. Review your "Dashboard" settings to be sure you know where your Dashboard is, and what is there. This is the control center for your blog. If the service has to contact you, this is the interface point.
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A. Go to http://www.blogger.com* Create Blog Now
- Use Google account or establish a new account
B. Name blog* This name becomes part of the web address, so it must be unique to that service.- Sometimes the name of the blog also becomes the title of the blog, as well. In other instances the title may be different.
C. Preview and choose a templateD. You will be invited to start posting with your first post. You can save to a "Draft" if you have to quit before you are finished with what you wish to write.
E. When you have written what you wish to post, "Preview Before Publishing" (PBP). Again, if it doesn't look right, save to "draft." Only when you are happy with what you have written and the way it appears in Preview, do you press "Publish."
F. Review your "Dashboard" settings to be sure you know where your Dashboard is, and what is there. This is the control center for your blog. If the service has to contact you, this is the interface point.